You may or may not know this already but I am not a Call of Duty fan. I've recently saw this new thing that they're doing that's called "Elite" that looks like a decent addition to the Call of Duty community. You get a chance to view your games in depth, see where you die a lot on heatmaps, and get a chance to improve in the Call of Duty community. Basically, it's broken off into four sections: Career, Connect, Compete, and Improve.
Career basically gives you insight on how much and how good you play. It show you heat maps so you can see the danger zones of the maps and give you an idea of where you die a lot and where you get kills a lot. You can also look at all of your friends' stats as well.
Connect is just like it sounds; you connect with the Call of Duty community. It's pretty much the Facebook for CoD. You can find "like-minded" players, as Jason Ades describes it, and set up times to play with them on CoD. One other feature on Connect is the theater. It works a lot like videos on Facebook. You can tag your friends so they can see it and there's going to be staff favorites and stuff like that.
Next is Compete. This section is kind of interesting. It shows you upcoming events and operations. What are these things you say? Well, events are pretty much fun contests your able to enter. An example that Jason Ades gave during the Gamespot interview was a screenshot competition where people submit their best screenshots and people vote for the best one. From these, your able to win various prizes and stuff. Operations are the same thing but are more skill based competition. An example would be capturing the most flags in a week or something like that. I believe there are tournaments as well but I'm unsure about that. Rewards are pretty much the same but I think in the interview Jason Ades said something about you get the chance to compete with pros, so that's kind of a cool feature.
Last section is Improve. This isn't really much. It's just a section where you can see where everything is on the maps and see stats and tips for all the guns. Not really much improvement can actually be made with this feature. All of these "Elite" features can be yours for the price of $60 per year.
Okay, let me just start my thoughts on this by saying: THIS IS A JOKE! Sixty bucks for this crap? I'd rather buy another game.The Career and Connect sections are both going to be free though. It's not original at all so I have no idea why they're hyping this up so much. Career is the exact same thing as Bungie.net and Connect is pretty much Facebook and Youtube combined. There's going to be "premium" videos that you need the premium subscription to watch and I'm sure they will be worse quality then what you find on Youtube.
Compete isn't really what I thought it would be. I thought it would be something like Game Battles where you have a team and look for serious matches, but I was wrong. It's just dumb competitions where the chances of you winning is probably lower than the lottery. I guess there is tournaments but still, I'd say that Game Battles looks better so far. If your looking for serious competition, just go on Game Battles.
One problem with the whole improve part; you gotta suck at FPS to be bad at the game. I'm not a hardcore player at all but my ratio in every Call of Duty game has been positive and I barely even play the game. Last time I checked, my ratio was 1.49 in Black Ops and my motivation was winning, not getting kills. One time, me and my friends decided we would actually try instead of screwing around (even though we were still just foolin' around) we went on a 30 game winning streak. Sure these friends were awesome at the game, but my point is that it's really easy to be good.
Another big problem with the improve part is it's just a crappy guide. The tips are pointless and the maps are even more pointless. It's better to actually go into the actual game to see these poorly designed maps yourself.
All in all, I do not recommend that you get this. It's not worth the money. You aren't going to get any better from using this and it's just gonna burn a hole through your pocket.
